I'm kind of jealous of the people who are super into AC's new direction. I miss the past games' focus on social stealth, crowds and assassinations. I played origins & am not really a big fan of the direction they've gone. To me, they took the series in the opposite direction of everything I thought made the franchise unique.
I liked the way the older games played more as well, but I also like the way the series is going now. I don't care either way. This is probably the only game series that I've liked nearly all of them that's been released.
Ugh, I'm still at 80% completion on SotTR trying to finish it before opening this game.